Among all the stones that our world's fancy holds precious, the diamond stands preeminent. The diamonds that gleamed with such fire in an idol's eye before the rising of the Star of Bethlehem may be sparkling today with more dazzling radiance in the crown of an emperor.

J. WILLARD HERSHEY, The Book of Diamonds

The Jungle is dark but full of diamonds.

ARTHUR MILLER, Death of a Salesman

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.

LEO ROBIN, Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend

Diamonds may have been a girl’s best friend in an era when a woman’s only hope of having a high family income was to marry a man who was well-off, but today, marketable skills that will enable a woman to command a good income over her lifetime are a better investment.

GRACE BARUCH, Life Prints

Diamonds are only chunks of coal,

That stuck to their jobs, you see.

MINNIE RICHARD SMITH, "Stick to Your Job"

Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, The Great Infidels

It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.

MARK TWAIN, Following the Equator

I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.

ZSA ZSA GABOR, London Observer, Aug. 28, 1957

Diamonds are trumps in the game of hearts.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, Poems and Paragraphs

A diamond, incarcerated in its subterraneous prison, rough and unpolished, differs not from a common stone.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon

We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity.

KARL MARX, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

Diamonds are forever.

IAN FLEMING, Diamonds Are Forever

It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

DOLLY PARTON, attributed, How Dolly Parton Saved My Life

The diamond has been always esteemed the rarest stone, and the most precious of all: among the ancients it was called the stone of reconciliation.

LEWIS VERTOMAN, attributed, Day's Collacon

Diamonds are best plain set.

ROLLE, attributed, Day's Collacon

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.

CHINESE PROVERB

Diamonds cut diamonds.

TAMIL, attributed, Day's Collacon

The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.

EVAN ESAR, 20,000 Quips & Quotes

Big girls need big diamonds.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR, attributed, The Little Black Book of Style

Diamonds are the most prized and highly valued of gemstones. Throughout history they have been admired by royalty and worn as a symbol of strength, courage and invincibility. Over the centuries the diamond acquired unique status as the ultimate gift of love, in myth and reality. It is the hardest known substance yet has the simplest chemical composition, consisting of crystallized carbon, the chemical element that is fundamental to all life.

MARIJAN DUNDEK, Diamonds

To the diamond is attributed the virtue of the talisman, and it is even said that he who wears the stone is always assured of victory, however numerous his enemies may be.

GARCIAS AB HORTO, attributed, Day's Collacon

A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.

PHILIP MASSINGER, The Bashful Lover

A diamond on a dunghill is a precious diamond still.

AMERICAN PROVERB

A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond.

EVAN ESAR, 20,000 Quips & Quotes

No pressure, no diamonds.

THOMAS CARLYLE, attributed, Diamonds: A Girl's Best Friend

Wit must be foiled by wit, cut a diamond with a diamond.

WILLIAM CONGREVE, The Double-Dealer

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.